Microsoft Search Queries Jump 15%.
Posted by HappyAndyK on 20 July 2008 - 01:39 · 8 comments & 3566 views
In June, Google Sites retained its lead in the U.S. core search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. Google was followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.9 percent, up from 20.6 percent in May), Microsoft Sites (9.2 percent, up from 8.5 percent in May), Ask Network (4.3 percent), and AOL LLC (4.1 percent).

Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 7-percent increase versus May. Google Sites handled more than 7 billion core searches (up 6 percent from May), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion (up 9 percent), and Microsoft Sites with more than 1 billion (up 15 percent).

Link: More At ComScore.


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(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by MaJoR on 20 Jul 2008 - 05:07
After a recent update IE7 on the family computer automatically reset the default search engine to Live Search. If I am not mistaken, that could very well be why they have a spike.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by +vlsi0n on 20 Jul 2008 - 06:03
Wasn't that a while ago?
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by John Ericson on 20 Jul 2008 - 11:10
The increase was caused by the Live Cashback Launch, see Bink news article. I'm not so sure IE7 have reseted the default search engine in any of its updates.
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by ricknl on 20 Jul 2008 - 13:58
Cashback was what I thought as the reason too.

An IE7 update reseting the default search to live.com? In that case Google would rush to the courthouse.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Faisal Islam on 20 Jul 2008 - 17:05
Live Search!

1st lemme say what r the best,

1. Web site interface
2. Cashback
3. Feed Search result
4. Image Search Result
5. xRank

now 'better' list

1. Web Search Result
2. News Search
3. Health Search

just one new features should be added to Live Seach, that is Search History saver.

at last i wanna say Live Search is a better option but it(live search) have to index more web sites like Google. Good luck live search.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by kaiwai on 20 Jul 2008 - 17:23
I would use it if their search results were better. It peeves me off about the fact that I have to go 3 pages in to find something that would appear on the first page with Google.com
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Ender2070 on 20 Jul 2008 - 18:18
Yeah or adds for microsoft junk
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by HalcyonX12 on 21 Jul 2008 - 14:53
OMG they're at the tipping point!
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